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That, along with the signs that were posted, saying it is a hole
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Guess they should have printed it in Italian.
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Not sure who's dumber. The Museum for not roping the hole off or the dumb-ass that that fell into it.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle...h-painting-on-the-floor/ar-BBMfARt?li=BBnbcA0
Museum Visitor Falls Into Giant Hole That Looks Like A Cartoonish Painting On The Floor
Andrew Liszewski
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Like a real-life version of a Looney Tunes cartoon, a visitor to a Portuguese museum was injured last week when he stepped into an art installation resembling an inky void. Currently on exhibit at the Serralves Museum in Porto, Descent Into Limbo by Anish Kapoor includes an actual 2.5m hole that’s painted black — so it appears to have no depth at all.
According to Britain’s Times, attendees of previous showings of the work have questioned “whether there really was a hole in the floor or whether it was simply a circle painted with an extremely dark black paint”. Presumably there will be no doubts going forward.
Though the Descent Into Limbo installation was reportedly surrounded with warning signs and staffers warning visitors not to get too close, there was no barrier around it. How the museumgoer, whom Portugal’s Publico reports was an Italian man in his 60s, was able to step into the hole isn’t known, but he was briefly hospitalised for the 2.5m fall. The museum closed the exhibit to assess what happened, but says it plans to reopen it soon.
In addition to being known for his over-sized installations (including the giant reflective Cloud Gate “bean” in Chicago), Kapoor made headlines in 2016 when he secured the exclusive artistic rights to a physics-defying material called Vantablack.
Developed by a British company called Surrey NanoSystems, the material is able to trap photons in-between lab-grown carbon nanotubes, which bounce around until they’re eventually absorbed. Just a scant 0.035 per cent of visible light is reflected by an object covered in Vantablack, making it impossible to see any curves or contours — or to accurately gauge the depth of a hole if you don’t know what you’re looking at.
Descent Into Limbo debuted years before Vantablack was announced to the public, and was instead created using a dark paint that produces the same depthless, black hole effect. For at least one hapless art lover, it seems that was enough.
I would have fallen in that hole, too.
Oh, come on Stu. You know the crowd we are talking about, right?
"Look, they'll be time for all that conjecture later, man. Could you help a bro out and grab a tusk?"
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Being a dumbass caused her not to think this through.
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https://www.fox4now.com/news/national/nancy-crampton-brophy-how-to-murder-your-husband-arrested
Woman who wrote 'How to Murder Your Husband' arrested for allegedly murdering her husband
Susan Gonzalez
PORTLAND POLICE BUREAU
Nancy Crampton-Brophy, an Oregon-based romance author, was arrested September 5 as a suspect in the murder of her husband Daniel Brophy, according to the Portland Police Bureau.
The 68-year-old writer was being held at Multnomah County Jail on charges of murder and unlawful use of a weapon.
Police responded to a shooting at the Oregon Culinary Institute, Brophy's place of employment, June 2. Students were just beginning to arrive when they found the 63-year-old chef bleeding in the kitchen, according to KATU2 news. Brophy died at the scene.
His wife, Crampton-Brophy, is a self-published author of several books, including "The Wrong Husband" and "The Girl Most Likely To." She also penned a blog post entitled "How To Murder Your Husband" in November 2011. The blog has since been made private.
In "How to Murder Your Husband," Crampton-Brophy described motives and possible murder weapons she would choose from if her character were to kill a husband in a romance novel, according to The Washington Post. She even offered advice to readers, such as not using a hitman or poison to commit the murder.
Her other works also dealt with murder. In "The Wrong Husband," a woman tries to leave an abusive spouse by faking her death and in "The Wrong Cop" she wrote about a woman who “spent every day of her marriage fantasizing about killing” her husband.
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https://www.fox4now.com/news/national/nancy-crampton-brophy-how-to-murder-your-husband-arrested
Woman who wrote 'How to Murder Your Husband' arrested for allegedly murdering her husband
Susan Gonzalez
PORTLAND POLICE BUREAU
Nancy Crampton-Brophy, an Oregon-based romance author, was arrested September 5 as a suspect in the murder of her husband Daniel Brophy, according to the Portland Police Bureau.
The 68-year-old writer was being held at Multnomah County Jail on charges of murder and unlawful use of a weapon.
Police responded to a shooting at the Oregon Culinary Institute, Brophy's place of employment, June 2. Students were just beginning to arrive when they found the 63-year-old chef bleeding in the kitchen, according to KATU2 news. Brophy died at the scene.
His wife, Crampton-Brophy, is a self-published author of several books, including "The Wrong Husband" and "The Girl Most Likely To." She also penned a blog post entitled "How To Murder Your Husband" in November 2011. The blog has since been made private.
In "How to Murder Your Husband," Crampton-Brophy described motives and possible murder weapons she would choose from if her character were to kill a husband in a romance novel, according to The Washington Post. She even offered advice to readers, such as not using a hitman or poison to commit the murder.
Her other works also dealt with murder. In "The Wrong Husband," a woman tries to leave an abusive spouse by faking her death and in "The Wrong Cop" she wrote about a woman who “spent every day of her marriage fantasizing about killing” her husband.
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http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/florida/suspect-ate-crack-pipe-527319
OCTOBER 15--In an apparent bid to destroy evidence, a female drug suspect chewed and swallowed a glass crack pipe, according to
Florida cops who arrested the woman on narcotics possession and tampering charges.
During a police investigation late Friday evening, a Largo Police Department officer asked Dariel Hutton, 52, for permission to look through her purse. Hutton, a criminal complaint notes, replied that she “only wanted another officer to look through it.”
Hutton then began “rummaging” through her bag, which allowed a cop to spot “a small glass pipe” with Brillo and “burnt residue” inside. The officer then sought to grab Hutton’s wrists so that he could handcuff her.
“While I was doing this, she placed the pipe in her mouth and refused to open it,” Officer Robert Drumm reported.
Hutton, seen above, then began “chewing and attempting to swallow” the crack pipe in the face of Drumm’s demands to spit out the drug paraphernalia. “Afterward, once she was placed in custody she made a big swallow,” added Drumm.
When Hutton finally opened her mouth, the patrolman observed that she was bleeding from a cut on the roof of her mouth. And the crack pipe had disappeared.
Hutton was booked into the county jail for tampering with physical evidence, a felony, for consuming the crack pipe. She was also charged with resisting arrest, a misdemeanor, and felony narcotics possession (her purse contained methadone pills for which she did not have a prescription).
Locked up in lieu of $4150 bond, Hutton has a lengthy rap sheet that includes multiple drug convictions and state prison terms. (1 page)
OCTOBER 15--In an apparent bid to destroy evidence, a female drug suspect chewed and swallowed a glass crack pipe, according to
During a police investigation late Friday evening, a Largo Police Department officer asked Dariel Hutton, 52, for permission to look through her purse. Hutton, a criminal complaint notes, replied that she “only wanted another officer to look through it.”
Hutton then began “rummaging” through her bag, which allowed a cop to spot “a small glass pipe” with Brillo and “burnt residue” inside. The officer then sought to grab Hutton’s wrists so that he could handcuff her.
“While I was doing this, she placed the pipe in her mouth and refused to open it,” Officer Robert Drumm reported.
Hutton, seen above, then began “chewing and attempting to swallow” the crack pipe in the face of Drumm’s demands to spit out the drug paraphernalia. “Afterward, once she was placed in custody she made a big swallow,” added Drumm.
When Hutton finally opened her mouth, the patrolman observed that she was bleeding from a cut on the roof of her mouth. And the crack pipe had disappeared.
Hutton was booked into the county jail for tampering with physical evidence, a felony, for consuming the crack pipe. She was also charged with resisting arrest, a misdemeanor, and felony narcotics possession (her purse contained methadone pills for which she did not have a prescription).
Locked up in lieu of $4150 bond, Hutton has a lengthy rap sheet that includes multiple drug convictions and state prison terms. (1 page)
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Again with Florida.http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/florida/suspect-ate-crack-pipe-527319
OCTOBER 15--In an apparent bid to destroy evidence, a female drug suspect chewed and swallowed a glass crack pipe, according toFlorida cops who arrested the woman on narcotics possession and tampering charges.
During a police investigation late Friday evening, a Largo Police Department officer asked Dariel Hutton, 52, for permission to look through her purse. Hutton, a criminal complaint notes, replied that she “only wanted another officer to look through it.”
Hutton then began “rummaging” through her bag, which allowed a cop to spot “a small glass pipe” with Brillo and “burnt residue” inside. The officer then sought to grab Hutton’s wrists so that he could handcuff her.
“While I was doing this, she placed the pipe in her mouth and refused to open it,” Officer Robert Drumm reported.
Hutton, seen above, then began “chewing and attempting to swallow” the crack pipe in the face of Drumm’s demands to spit out the drug paraphernalia. “Afterward, once she was placed in custody she made a big swallow,” added Drumm.
When Hutton finally opened her mouth, the patrolman observed that she was bleeding from a cut on the roof of her mouth. And the crack pipe had disappeared.
Hutton was booked into the county jail for tampering with physical evidence, a felony, for consuming the crack pipe. She was also charged with resisting arrest, a misdemeanor, and felony narcotics possession (her purse contained methadone pills for which she did not have a prescription).
Locked up in lieu of $4150 bond, Hutton has a lengthy rap sheet that includes multiple drug convictions and state prison terms. (1 page)
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That crack pipe eater from the Tampon area reminded me of this classic....
That crack pipe eater from the Tampon area reminded me of this classic....
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Start this at 4:50 for the for the rest of that one. The quality is not as good... but the rest of this scene can't be left out.
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Too funny. I met Slim at one of my mom’s art shows in Nebraska. He was the MC of the rodeo. He was the most genuinely funny person I have ever met. He sat around and told stories of his rodeo days and early Hollywood. I don’t think anyone spoke more than a couple words when he was talking. We were laughing too hard.
Side note. He and Ben Johnson were there. Ben was a giant of a man (of course I was 15 or 16) but Ben had the biggest hands I have ever seen and I’ve met plenty of basketball players. My wife teases that he must have kept his ladies happy.
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Too funny. I met Slim at one of my mom’s art shows in Nebraska. He was the MC of the rodeo. He was the most genuinely funny person I have ever met. He sat around and told stories of his rodeo days and early Hollywood. I don’t think anyone spoke more than a couple words when he was talking. We were laughing too hard.
Side note. He and Ben Johnson were there. Ben was a giant of a man (of course I was 15 or 16) but Ben had the biggest hands I have ever seen and I’ve met plenty of basketball players. My wife teases that he must have kept his ladies happy.
Does she tease because your hands are small?
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Eat your free soup, dumbass!
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Dunno. Is 11” small?
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A three Dumbass special. :mrburns::mrburns::mrburns:
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"It Was All A Lie": Homeless Vet, NJ Couple Charged In $400,000 GoFundMe Grift
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018...s-vet-nj-couple-charged-400000-gofundme-grift
A feel-good story about a New Jersey couple who raised over $400,000 to help a homeless good Samaritan - before they pilfered his GoFundMe account - was all a scam, a prosecutor said Thursday.
Kate McClure, 28, Mark D'Amico, 39, and drug-addicted homeless veteran Johnny Bobbitt, 35, were charged with theft by deception and conspiracy to commit theft by deception, after the three concocted a story that Bobbitt had given McClure his last $20 after her car ran out of fuel, leaving her stranded on the side of I-95 in a dangerous Philadelphia neighborhood.
In numerous media appearances, McClure claimed she was driving to meet a friend in September 2017 when she ran out of gas around midnight on the I-95 exit ramp near Philadelphia and Bobbitt, who was sleeping under a nearby overpass, came to her rescue. She claimed Bobbitt spent his last $20 to buy her gas.
"I pulled over to the side of the road as far as I could and I was going to get out and walk to the nearest gas station because it was not that far away, and that's when I met Johnny," McClure said last November in a "Good Morning America" interview. "He walked up and he said, 'Get back in the car. Lock the doors. I'll be back.' I was just like, 'OK.'" -ABC
They said they wanted to "pay it forward," and established a GoFundMe campaign with an initial goal of raising $10,000. After the story went viral, the three raised $403,000.
The net proceeds were $360,000 after fees, which went into an acount controlled by McClure. Bobbitt received approximately $75,000 of it according to Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina.
"The entire campaign was predicated on a lie," said Coffina during a Thursday news conference. "Less than an hour after the GoFundMe campaign went live McClure, in a text exchange with a friend, stated that the story about Bobbitt assisting her was fake," he said.
In one of the texts read by Coffina, McClure allegedly wrote to a friend, "Ok, so wait, the gas part is completely made up but the guy isn't. I had to make something up to make people feel bad. So, shush about the made up stuff." -ABC
After the story went sideways - and reports emerged that the couple had pilfered most of the money meant for Bobbitt, police raided McClure and D'Amico's home looking for evidence in the case, and seizing a BMW they bought with charitable donations.
Bobbitt, meanwhile, lawyered up and has alleged that the couple committed fraud and conspiracy by taking large amounts of the donations to "enjoy a lifestyle they could not afford" and using the account as "their personal piggy bank." Bobbitt's attorney, Chris Fallon, asked a judge to appoint a supervisor to manage the money in the fundraising account.
He said the money is all gone, most of it squandered by McClure and D'Amico on gambling, numerous luxury handbags, a New Year's trip to Las Vegas and a BMW. The couple also used the donated funds to pay back $9,000 they owed to relatives. -ABC
Confina said that if Bobbitt hadn't sued, the three might have gotten away with the scam.
D'Amico and McClure turned themselves in on Wednesday, according to WPVI, while Bobbitt was arrested separately Wednesday night by the Philadelphia Police Department on charges of being a fugitive from justice - and is expected to be extradited to Burlington County to face charges.
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"It Was All A Lie": Homeless Vet, NJ Couple Charged In $400,000 GoFundMe Grift
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018...s-vet-nj-couple-charged-400000-gofundme-grift
A feel-good story about a New Jersey couple who raised over $400,000 to help a homeless good Samaritan - before they pilfered his GoFundMe account - was all a scam, a prosecutor said Thursday.
Kate McClure, 28, Mark D'Amico, 39, and drug-addicted homeless veteran Johnny Bobbitt, 35, were charged with theft by deception and conspiracy to commit theft by deception, after the three concocted a story that Bobbitt had given McClure his last $20 after her car ran out of fuel, leaving her stranded on the side of I-95 in a dangerous Philadelphia neighborhood.
In numerous media appearances, McClure claimed she was driving to meet a friend in September 2017 when she ran out of gas around midnight on the I-95 exit ramp near Philadelphia and Bobbitt, who was sleeping under a nearby overpass, came to her rescue. She claimed Bobbitt spent his last $20 to buy her gas.
"I pulled over to the side of the road as far as I could and I was going to get out and walk to the nearest gas station because it was not that far away, and that's when I met Johnny," McClure said last November in a "Good Morning America" interview. "He walked up and he said, 'Get back in the car. Lock the doors. I'll be back.' I was just like, 'OK.'" -ABC
They said they wanted to "pay it forward," and established a GoFundMe campaign with an initial goal of raising $10,000. After the story went viral, the three raised $403,000.
The net proceeds were $360,000 after fees, which went into an acount controlled by McClure. Bobbitt received approximately $75,000 of it according to Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina.
"The entire campaign was predicated on a lie," said Coffina during a Thursday news conference. "Less than an hour after the GoFundMe campaign went live McClure, in a text exchange with a friend, stated that the story about Bobbitt assisting her was fake," he said.
In one of the texts read by Coffina, McClure allegedly wrote to a friend, "Ok, so wait, the gas part is completely made up but the guy isn't. I had to make something up to make people feel bad. So, shush about the made up stuff." -ABC
After the story went sideways - and reports emerged that the couple had pilfered most of the money meant for Bobbitt, police raided McClure and D'Amico's home looking for evidence in the case, and seizing a BMW they bought with charitable donations.
Bobbitt, meanwhile, lawyered up and has alleged that the couple committed fraud and conspiracy by taking large amounts of the donations to "enjoy a lifestyle they could not afford" and using the account as "their personal piggy bank." Bobbitt's attorney, Chris Fallon, asked a judge to appoint a supervisor to manage the money in the fundraising account.
He said the money is all gone, most of it squandered by McClure and D'Amico on gambling, numerous luxury handbags, a New Year's trip to Las Vegas and a BMW. The couple also used the donated funds to pay back $9,000 they owed to relatives. -ABC
Confina said that if Bobbitt hadn't sued, the three might have gotten away with the scam.
D'Amico and McClure turned themselves in on Wednesday, according to WPVI, while Bobbitt was arrested separately Wednesday night by the Philadelphia Police Department on charges of being a fugitive from justice - and is expected to be extradited to Burlington County to face charges.
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I'm just south of Tampa.
Bout to finally have my pool cage replaced from Irma... there's a turtle in my pool which looks more like a pond. I'm really enjoying having a turtle in the pool, but I can tell he wants out. Unfortunately, I can't get him out. Tried to scoop him out and he cut through the screen on the skimmer like he was a Ninja Turtle...
Yep, I live in Florida all right. I have a Kung Fu Turtle in my pool.
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This guy wins the Dumbass of the Year, for me:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/ne...wn-luggage-on-fire/ar-BBPMOqU?ocid=spartandhp
A Man Was so Angry His Flight Was Cancelled He Set His Own Luggage on Fire
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Delayed flights can truly be the worst. And they can cause a wide variety of reactions from passengers. Some people are perfectly calm and polite despite the bad news, others become angry with the crew or airline, some may even cry or yell.
But there are some responses that are just straight up overreactions – like setting your own possessions on fire.
One irate passenger actually did decide that arson was the only way to respond to his delayed flight on Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), according to Dawn.
PIA Flight PK-607, bound for Gilgit, Pakistan at 7 a.m. local time, was delayed on Thursday for technical reasons, and then ultimately canceled due to bad weather at Islamabad Airport.
At this point, some passengers shouted in protest and pushed airport personnel over the cancelation, according to Dawn. But one passenger took it one — or maybe a thousand— steps further.
A video of the passenger was posted on Facebook.
Luckily, no one was actually hurt in the fire and it was put out by Civil Aviation Authority fire fighters.
Despite the fires and protest, the flight cancelation was actually quite routine. Flights around the world get canceled due to technical problems and weather all the time. But it’s rare for a purposeful fire to break out.
A PIA spokesperson told Dawn that passengers were moved to hotels to await a new flight, which was scheduled for them on Friday – all in all, a fairly predictable protocol.
“No airline can risk flying a passenger plane in bad weather,” the spokesperson said.
The site reported that PIA “has opted to forgive and forget the incident that happened at Islamabad International Airport on November 15.”
There have been no police or government reports regarding the incidents, according to History of PIA
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What a fucking idiot. Let's hope that he never procreates.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/ne...wn-luggage-on-fire/ar-BBPMOqU?ocid=spartandhp
A Man Was so Angry His Flight Was Cancelled He Set His Own Luggage on Fire
Andrea Romano
16 hrs ago
Delayed flights can truly be the worst. And they can cause a wide variety of reactions from passengers. Some people are perfectly calm and polite despite the bad news, others become angry with the crew or airline, some may even cry or yell.
But there are some responses that are just straight up overreactions – like setting your own possessions on fire.
One irate passenger actually did decide that arson was the only way to respond to his delayed flight on Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), according to Dawn.
PIA Flight PK-607, bound for Gilgit, Pakistan at 7 a.m. local time, was delayed on Thursday for technical reasons, and then ultimately canceled due to bad weather at Islamabad Airport.
At this point, some passengers shouted in protest and pushed airport personnel over the cancelation, according to Dawn. But one passenger took it one — or maybe a thousand— steps further.
A video of the passenger was posted on Facebook.
Luckily, no one was actually hurt in the fire and it was put out by Civil Aviation Authority fire fighters.
Despite the fires and protest, the flight cancelation was actually quite routine. Flights around the world get canceled due to technical problems and weather all the time. But it’s rare for a purposeful fire to break out.
A PIA spokesperson told Dawn that passengers were moved to hotels to await a new flight, which was scheduled for them on Friday – all in all, a fairly predictable protocol.
“No airline can risk flying a passenger plane in bad weather,” the spokesperson said.
The site reported that PIA “has opted to forgive and forget the incident that happened at Islamabad International Airport on November 15.”
There have been no police or government reports regarding the incidents, according to History of PIA
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What a fucking idiot. Let's hope that he never procreates.
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You know air travel has gotten out of hand stressful when they decide to "forgive and forget" someone setting their luggage on fire!!!
I'm not siding with the guy, mind you, but holy cow. How mad do you have to be to set your own stuff on fire?!?!?!
I'm not siding with the guy, mind you, but holy cow. How mad do you have to be to set your own stuff on fire?!?!?!